Thursday, May 31, 2007
WARNINGS THE AUTHOR IS TRYING TO GET ACROSS?
After I have read Fahrenheit 451 I have realized that the author Ray Bradbury was trying to explain to the readers that two worlds have been evolved. One world where Montag and Mildred only know what they have been told, and another world where Faber knows all kinds of information and feeling on the world. I feel as though in Montags world being a fire fighter was to burn books and thats only what he has been told all his life, so he does what he is told, but after realizing the mistakes he has made he wants more out of life, an explanation. Millie is always stuck inside of her house and believes the walls are almost like her friends. The author here is trying to expand on two worlds and allow Faber to teach Montag more about his life and how much more he should be living his life up to. Mildred comes across a horrible thing that she faces and that's her obsession will her pills, Montag realizes that burning books is not what he wants to do. Montag would rather learn from Faber and read the books, to enjoy what life has to offer. Montag had said that after all of ten years of burning books a way he can make up for his mistakes is to read the books for answers and that might help him understand why he burned them. Faber is a man who is filled with knowledge, he lets Montag know what life has to offer and what the he is missing, this makes Montag want to know more about his own life that he is living. For example "along with quality of information, and the leisure time to think about that information, is freedom for people to act on the conclusions they come to." Faber feels the world is missing information because the books have been burned but not only that, its the freedom of the people to read the books. Montag has such an urge to change the world he is living in, but he is still trying to piece together things that he doesn't understand in order to make things right. Overall this novel is a dystopia one that is determined to be changed by the people living in it.
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You may be interested in what Ray said on these very points, upon being awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for a sci fi and fantasy writer, as reported today in the LA Weekly by the author of a forthcoming book on Rod Serling.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/16524/
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